debug-buttercup
debug buttercup
What it does
- Pods in the crs namespace are in CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, or restarting
- Multiple services restart simultaneously (cascade failure)
- Redis is unresponsive or showing AOF warnings
- Queues are growing but tasks are not progressing
- Nodes show DiskPressure, MemoryPressure, or PID pressure
- Build-bot cannot reach the Docker daemon (DinD failures)
- Scheduler is stuck and not advancing task state
Requirements & configuration
Configuration: CORPUS_TMPFS_PATH
Derived from the skill's own SKILL.md documentation · extracted 2026-07-23
debug-buttercup FAQ
What does the debug-buttercup skill do?
> Debugs the Buttercup CRS (Cyber Reasoning System) running on Kubernetes. Use when diagnosing pod crashes, restart loops, Redis failures, resource pressure, disk saturation, DinD issues, or any service misbehavior in the crs namespace. Covers triage, log analysis, queue inspection, and common failure patterns for: redis, fuzzer-bot, coverage-bot, seed-gen, patcher, build-bot, scheduler, task-server, task-downloader, program-model, litellm, dind, tracer-bot, merger-bot, competition-api, pov-reproducer, scratch-cleaner, registry-cache, image-preloader, ui. Pods in the crs namespace are in CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, or restarting Multiple services restart simultaneously (cascade failure)
How do I install debug-buttercup?
Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/trailofbits/skills --skill debug-buttercup --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/trailofbits/skills.
Maintain debug-buttercup?
Let people know it's listed here — add the badge (live metrics, light/dark aware) or a plain link to your README or docs.
[debug-buttercup on getagentictools](https://getagentictools.com/skills/trailofbits-skills-debug-buttercup?ref=badge) npx agentictools info skills/trailofbits-skills-debug-buttercup The second line is the CLI lookup for this page — handy in READMEs and docs.
